There is a principle in medicine that applies to everyone. It doesn’t matter if you are healthy or not. It doesn’t matter if you have a genetic condition, an old injury, a nasty infection … or if you are in the prime of your life.
This principle is the foundation of modern medicine and alternative medicine (at least the ones that work). Every doctor and healer by other names knows this to be true.
It is the cause of more healing than anything else on the planet. It does contradictory things, like boosting your immune system or restricting it, to improve your well-being.
And when you understand it, you can use it to stay safe, healthy, and full of energy.
Are you ready to hear what it is?
In scientific terms, your body is amazing.
It is truly amazing.
You are alive in a world full of things that can kill you. Injuries and infections lurk in every corner. And yet here you are.
Genetics haven’t changed much in the last 100,000 years. You have the same basic structure as your hunter-gatherer ancestors. They had to fight, hunt, and drill for every scrap.
There were no more tools than they could make. There were no more medicines than they could collect.
In this world, they survived for decades. They laughed, they cried, they found love, they formed families. Many of them lived full and rich lives in a world with rival tribes, terrible predators, and diseases that they could infect with a simple scratch.
Their bodies, your body, kept them alive and well, against all odds.
Your body is amazing.
This is the principle: no medicine of any kind will cure you. All it does is restore balance and remove enough obstacles for the body to heal itself.
Modern medicine knows it. The body does all the work; all doctors have to do is interfere occasionally to put you on the right track. There is nothing in a hospital that tells cells to repair a cut. Nothing, that is, except the patients.
Your body heals itself constantly. Every day you wear yourself out. Every day, you recover. This balance can keep you alive and vibrant for decades.
But there is a lot of energy for everyone.
If you see a threat, you must act now – maintenance can wait. If you put the wrong foods in your body, there is less than what the repair mechanisms need. Without sleep, rest and free time, the balance is far from the favor of health.
Meditation gives your body time to do what it needs to do.
It calms down the system, freeing up resources to go where they are needed.
Your mind strengthens, directing you towards better habits.
And bring your awareness to what your body says it needs.
This is how meditation helps you stay healthy. It does little directly to fight infection or repair damage. However, it indirectly frees your precious resources from being wasted on the wrong things.
Your body and your mind are a team. Teamwork is best when both parties appear.
